It's no bother at all.

The game's difficulty was a pleasant surprise. Many of the battles were very difficult. I'd definitely say the difficulty was much higher than that of the original. For one thing, Guts still exists, but it's not the game-breaking skill it used to be. And, so far as I've been able to find, Auto-Item no longer exists. So no worries there.

But many of the battles are very difficult, of course if you're not over leveled. I had to sit down and spend some time leveling up in order to continue, and other times I had to fight against bosses repeatedly before I was able to win.

As for puzzles, I didn't find anything too difficult. There is one which would have been tough to do without any knowledge of Japanese, as you had to put certain things in certain places, but that won't be a problem with the English release.

All in all, I'd say it had a challenging difficulty, but never to the point of infuriating frustration.